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So this saving money thing is going nicely with the ana thing.  Less food, less stuff, simplify simplify simplify.  So far this month, the money I have not spent when I otherwise would have (and it's gone into the kitty for the good cause thing) is below.  The estimates are easy; I am such a creature of habit, I always get the same things at the same places when I go out; and if I go somewhere new with friends, I look at the menu and decide what I would have gotten and add it to the total. :)

1.  Dinner after work (10.00)
2.  Breakfast with friend (11.00)
3.  Loaf of artisan bread to c/s (5.00)
4.  Lunch out while working out of town (11.00)
5.  Lunch out while working out of town (8.00)
6.  Italian dinner with Big (48.00)
7.  Dinner with friends (10.00)
8.  New H. L. Mencken box set (and damn I really want this thing...I'm going to exercise some self-restraint for now and either order it at the end of my 60 days or ask for it as a birthday present in the fall) (44.00)
9.  Vegan crayons (9.00)  (see notes for #8)
10. Vegan cookbook (12.00)

This has been a really neat thing.  When I go out with friends, I am able to just sit there while they eat without having to feign sickness or some other excuse.  Suddenly I have this perfectly rational and truthful explanation for why I am not joining them.  This plan is an ana's dream, I tell you.

Weight today:  102.  I'm averaging 1000-1250 cals a day, which on my metabolism-deranged body is not enough to move the numbers.  This week I'll be hitting it a little harder and ramping up the exercise....